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Dracula

Bram Stoker · 1897 · 160,700 words
7:29:09
at 390 wpm · the whole book
The audiobook runs about fifteen and a half hours.

Jonathan Harker rides into the Carpathians to close a property sale and works out too slowly that Count Dracula casts no reflection, crawls face-down out of a window and down the castle wall like a lizard, and never means to let him leave. That is the famous part, and it is finished by chapter five. The rest is a Victorian procedural: a schooner driven aground at Whitby with a corpse lashed to the wheel, Lucy Westenra sleepwalking, blood transfusions, fifty boxes of Transylvanian earth traced through London property records, telegrams from Varna. Van Helsing comes from Amsterdam to name the thing, in English so mangled it is work to parse at speed.

27 chapters · begin at the beginning
Chapter I15:45begin ▸
·Chapter II15:15sealed
·Chapter III15:48sealed
·Chapter IV16:22sealed
·Chapter V9:55sealed
·Chapter VI15:51sealed
·Chapter VII15:51sealed
·Chapter VIII17:38sealed
·Chapter IX16:38sealed
·Chapter X16:54sealed
·Chapter XI14:24sealed
·Chapter XII20:32sealed
·Chapter XIII18:29sealed
·Chapter XIV18:02sealed
·Chapter XV16:20sealed
·Chapter XVI12:45sealed
·Chapter XVII15:35sealed
·Chapter XVIII19:20sealed
·Chapter XIX15:40sealed
·Chapter XX16:33sealed
·Chapter XXI17:21sealed
·Chapter XXII15:07sealed
·Chapter XXIII15:59sealed
·Chapter XXIV17:30sealed
·Chapter XXV17:33sealed
·Chapter XXVI19:55sealed
·Chapter XXVII22:06sealed

How long does it take to read Dracula?

Dracula is 160,700 words. At an average adult reading pace of 300 words a minute that is about 8 hr 56 min, or roughly 6 hr 42 min if you read quickly and 13 hr 24 min at a more deliberate 200 words a minute.

That count is measured from the complete public-domain text rather than estimated from a page count, so you can compare all the books side by side.

Text: Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. · You read at the book's authored pace; nothing here is stored anywhere but this browser. · About Midsentence